Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1938 — Page 1

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Spectators Watch Battle To Remove Tree Stump, Roots Spetatori at the working site of the new Junior-senior high school on Jefferson street, this morning watched with unusual Interest a prolonged battle between a manmade machine and a creator of nature. For several sninutea the stump and roots of the huge maple tree stood at the northeast corner of the Old Central building defied the efforts of workers attempting its removal. A short section of the stump ( and its hundreds of twining roots were all that remained of the old landmark as workmen started digging It out this morning. But the giant dtag-line crane broke two chains and was pulled over at a 45 degree angle, before the roots finally were yanked from the ground in the process of excavation. Several spectators stood at a safe distance to watch the larors j of loosening the roots of the once j | towering tree. W. C.T. U. TO MEET TUESDAY Program For Afternoon And Evening Sessions i Announced Today The program for the meeting of the womens Christian temperance union, which will be held at the First United Brthren church in this city Tuesday, was announced today. The afternoon session will open at 2 o’clock, and the evening sess ion at 7:30 p. m. A carry-in supper will be served at 5:30. The program for the afternoon session is as follows: Organ prelude —Mrs. Ralph Roop. Song service—Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Devotional and evangelistic department —Mrs Neva SharroW. Appointment of committees — Mrs. Clarence Drake, president. Duet —Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Graham. Short addresses. “A personal re-| sponsibility of a Christian citizen. ” i Rev. C. J. Miner; -Sabbath observance.’’ Rev. Glen Marshall; "Bible, knowledge. a preventative of crime,” Rev. C. M. Prugh. Special number by Christian church. Address—“ Child health and protection," Dr. Harold Zwick. Offering. Discussion period. ' Motion picture and international ) relations —Mrs. N. E. Wicks. Flower mission and relief —Mrs. Delton Passwater. Question box — Mrs. Clarence Drake, president. Business. Benediction. Evening Session First U. B. church orchestra. Organ prelude—Mrs. Ralph Roop. Son service—Rev. Paul Brandyberry. Devotions —Rev. James A. Weber. Solo—Mrs. Ben Schroyer. Address — “The present liquor situation in Indiana,” Rev. George S. Lozier. Offering and prayer—Rev. Weber. Four-act piay, ”A sorry solution.” U. B. C. young people, with II 111. -I ——— (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) MORE FILE FOR OFFICES HERE Additional Declarations Os Candidacy Filed With County Clerk Additional candidates for public office filed their declarations of candidacy in the offices of the county- clerk either on Saturday afternoon or Monday morning. The last day for filing declarations will be April 2. Last Friday, March 4, was the first day and a large number have already filed. | Petitions signed by a number of ; voters, representing one-half of one , per cent of the votes cast by the party for secretary of state in the last election are also to be filed with the declaration. The additional candidates who have filed, are: John W. Blakey, Democrat, candidate for county ' treasurer. B. F. Brelner, Democrat,, candidate for Washington township trustee. Clyde Troutner, Democrat candidate for county clerk. Edwin H. Oilliom, Democrat candidate for Monroe township trustee. Jonas Sprunger, Noah Neuenschwander and Alfred F. Ry.f Democrats, all candidates for Monroe town advisory board.

GIVES REPORT OF SIGHT OF MISSING PiANE Rancher Reports Seeing Object Resembling Missing Plane Fresno, Calif , March 7—(U.R>— i A searching party prepared to leave today for Goal Mountain, where a rancher reported he saw an object from a distance that re-' sembled an airplane, possibly the Transcontinental and Western Air. Express liner that disappeared last Tuesday night carrying nine per-1 sons. Capt. John Sears, a retired Free- j no fireman, sent word of his dis- f i covery to the headquarters here that T. W. A. has set up for the ' | search. There was a break in the ! i heavy clouds that have obscured the mountain for days. Sears said. I and he saw the object lying on the mountainside 1,500 feet above Boss Lake. It resembled an airplane that I was Intact, he said. Although the ' area is densely wooded, the airplane seemed to be outlined against the deep mountain snows, on which : j2O inches have fallen since the plane disappeared while on a flight from Sun Francisco to Los Angeles. The mountain is more than 60 miles east of Fresno. It is about six miles northeast of a power house, where ranchers said they I heard the plane pass about 15 min-| utes after Pilot John Graves made ' his last radio report. A party of ground searchers | headed by M. A. Benedict, a forest | supervisor, was starting for the mountain at daybreak. While the Goat Mountain report I w-as being investigated, it was I decided to send another ground party and several airplanes southward. to search a 20-mile wide area as far as Portersville, which is 60 miles south of the Big Creek powi erhouse. This is an emergency route j sometimes used by pilots and it was considered the most likely area for a search in the event that _ j. | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MONROE LISTS 28 GRADUATES Candidates For Graduation At Monroe Are Announced Today Twenty-eight members of the senior class of the Monroe high school are candidates for gradu- ! ation in April, it was disclosed to- ! day. These 28 students are expected to form the graduation class of the j school in the commencement exercises, to be held late in April. Following are the students: Leroy Schwarts, Edith Inez Birch, Laurence D. Morgan. Loren j Clyde Burkhead Jr., Frieda Ruth ' Liechty. Mary Jeanette Laechty.! Elmer Noah Nussbaum, Loris Eli i Neuenschwander, Ruth Elizabeth ; Nussbaum. Lounela Von Gunten, Dorothy Maxine McClain. Mildred fLeanna Schindler, Betty Maxine ! Burkhart, Helen Kathryn Habegger. Ester Evelyn Diehl, Gerhart R. Schwartz, Verlin Russell Moser, Ruth Ellen Ludy. Esther Steiner. Elizabeth Angelene Habegger. Estella Mae Steury. Chrystal Viri ginia Christener. Clara Viola Blowers, Willis E. Taylor. Anna Bar(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Miss Nellie Young To Speak At Conference Midi Nellie Young, state director of children’s work, will be the chief i speaker at the children’s worker i conference, to be held at the Linn Grove Christian church Monday, March 28. The conference is open to all persons in the county, who are interested in and take an active part ir , the Christian instruction of Adams county youth. The conference ie under the direction of the Adams county council of Christian education. o —- Miss Helen Haubold To Inspect Chapter Miss He’en Haubold, province officer of the Tri Kappa sorority, | will conduct the biennial inspection ( of the Huntington chapter tonight in that city at the home of Mrs. ! Wilbur Petrie. Mrs. Deane Dorwin and Mrs. Albert Gehrig former members of the Huntington chapter, will accompany the officer on the visit.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 7, 1938.

Would Sacrifice Eye for Baby / i 'A \ f M ■ ' /r A j/' ' \ w ** "WQthhipyoV. ”*%***^ -A t gffgßjggaL' WM w JI • Mrs. Irene Laverty Is shown with her son, Robert. 2. for whom she is ready to sacrifice her eye that he may seen from an eye lost through measles. Mrs. Laverty, pretty North Wales, Pa„ mill-worker, is waiting word from New York doctors as to whether or not they can successfully use the eye from a still-born child before calling on her.

TRAINING MEET PLANNED HERE 4-H Club eaders To Attend Training School Here Wednesday Miss Lulu Whitaker, extension 4-H club specialist of Purdue University. will conduct a training meeting the morning of Wednesda. March 9. in the city hall build- : ing. Decatur. The meeting will ' start at 9:30. , All iMiult and jonior 4-H club, ' leaders are urged to attend this ! meeting, so that they may have I complete instructions with which , to start the club year. The adult 4-H club leaders which have been secured thus far are. as follows: Preble township. Marjorie Dilling; St. Johns. Mrs. Rudy Meyer: Root, Mrs. Vernon Custer and Mrs. Ed Debolt; Union, Miss Marcele Beard: Decatur, Miss Mildred Worthman; St. Marys. Miss Myrtle Clements and Miss Mary Koos: Monroe. Mrs. Paul Gould and Mrs. John Floyd; Berne, Mrs. Charles Abraham; Blue Creek. Mrs. Lester Sipe and Mrs. Harry Troutner. It Is hoped that leaders can be ; secured for all the clubs by the time of the training meeting on | Wednesday. o I. U. Scholarships Are Available Here — Applications from Adams county’s : candidates for county scholarships to Indiana university must be mailed by the county high school principals or superintendents to reach Prof. D. A. Rothrock, not later than March 15. according to word receiv- j ed today from Bloomington. About 200 scholarships will ’be awarded. including two for Adams county, each with a value of $65 in contingent fees. Local school officials will conduct tests March 28April 2 and the final awards will be made at a n I. U. committee meeting in June. Robert Franz of I this city and John Grile of Geneva are present scholarships winners at , the school.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Glen E. Marshall) (Church of God) THE BAPTISM OF SUFFERING "Are ye ableto drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" The cup of trouble the baptism of suffering, were the cup and baptism of Jesus. The follower of Jesus will suffer. “They that live Godly shall suffer persecution.” “Many are the afflictions of the righteous but i the Lord delivered him out of them all." One who leaves houses. I lands, brethren, sisters, father, mother, wife or children for Christ’s ‘ sake and the Gospel's, shall receive an hundred fold in this time, I with persecutions, so said the Master. The Captain of our salvation, Jesus, was made perfect through suffering. Suffering has the peculiar quality of making men better. It consumes the dross and purifies the life; makes men feel their need of the Divine; draws the soul to God; and humbles the heart. Suffering, whether by affliction, sorrow, persecution, loss, or trial is a ; blessing in disguise. Our attitude toward it, however, determines its ! effect upon us. When suffering. Job said of God. “Though he slay me, ] yet will I trust him." Trouble made Job a better man, for God. Rebelling against God because of trouble or suffering retards spiritual growth, and will, if continued, cause the fellowship with God to be I broken. “All things (even suffering) work together for good to them | that Love God."

Board Receives Bids For Highway Equipment The county commissioners this afternoon were examining tne specifications and prices for the new ’highway equipment being purchased. Six bids for a tractor and two for a road maintainer were obtained The commissioners allowed the c.'aims against the county for the month of February this morning. During the present session they will consider some changes in the rural voting places, due t > the al>andoment of the school houses they have been held in the past. o— — DEATH CLAIMS JOHN FUHRMAN Retired Preble Township Farmer Dies Early This Morning — John F. Fuhrman. 70, Preble township retired farmer, died this morning at 3:20 o’clock of complica-1 tions. He bad been ill since last | June. Mr. Fuhrman was born in Wells county, August 16, 1867. He had liv|ed in Adams county the last 46 years. Mr. Fuhrman was the son of | John and Catherine Grosh-Fuhrman j His marriage to Miss Anna Decker | I took place, June 26, 1892. He was a member of the FriedI heim Lutheran church. Surviving are the widow, two children, Otto and Mrs. Lorena Weilensick, both of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. Sophie Gallmeyer and Mrs. Ixtuise Stoppenhagen, both of Adame county, and Mrs. Clara Stoppenhagen, of Allen county, and sevI en grandchildren. Funeral services will bo held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clodk at the home and at 2 o’clock at the Friedheim Lutheran church, with the pstor, the Hev. W. H. Werning. officiating. Burial will be made in the church cemetery. The body has been removed from the Zwick funeral home and may be viewed at the Fhrman home | until the time of the funeral.

MASS FUNERALS ARE HELD FOR FLOOD VICTIMS 139 Persons Listed As Dead In California Flood Area Los Angeles. March 7 — (U.R) — I Mass funerals were begun today for the many scores who died in | the southern California flood. The mourners passed along streets half buried in mud and debris, where i groups of grim and weary men still searched for the missing, five days after the disaster. There were 139 persons listed as dead in the 30,000 square mile area and it was estimated that 200 or more had died. To keep out sight-seers and looters during the rehabilitation work, national guardsmen were on patrol at Anaheim; sheriff's men blocked the roads in San Bernardino county; mounted posses guarded the banks of Lytle Creek and Santa Ana river in several counties. Nine more men were added to the death list last night when a haggard party of two women and four men emerged from Tujenga Canyon, and reported that nine of their companions drowned when a torrent swept down upon a construction camp 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles. For five days the surviving six had been without food. There was a funeral for 18 today at Anaheim. Most of them were drowned in the Atwood and La i Jolla area nearby, when the Santa Ana river left its banks and took a new course down the main street of Atwood. It is a Mexican community. Four children were taken in one hearse from the Anaheim church to the hillside cemetery. Anaheim, a few miles down the river from Atwood, was a desolate ' place today. Thick, sticky mud filled the streets. Broken timbers and driftwood lay in heaps in every direction. Mexican families plodded along ; silently looking in the ruins for missing friends and relatives. Men 1 worked doggedly without a word. I National guardsmen walked the streets. The only music came from the church organ. The scene was similar at La i Jolla, a Mexican settlement five I miles east. Men there were rippi ing buildings apart bit by bit in their search. The chugging of caterpillar tractors slithering along the mud. clear- , ing the streets and roads; the ocI casional crowing of a rooster, weer the only sounds at times in the | , once boisterous Mexican settlei ments. Three companies of national I I guardsmen enforced strict regula- 1 ; tions about disposal of the bodies I of hundreds of farm animals and pets. Drinking water was boiled and families were ordered to submit to typhoid vaccination. For 40 miles along the Santa Ana i river banks, sheriff’s men searched I for bodies. They ripped apart flood-smashed buildings, dug into | crags wehere drifting bodies might have been caught. It was a foregone conclusion that some had been carried out to sea and would never be found. Stern warnings were issued against looting. LEHMAN GOW AT MID-WEST SALE — Adams County GuernseyCow Is Accepted On Consignment According to word received here today, a four year-old Guernsey cow Happy Boy's Cheer, has been accepted on consignment for the annual mid west sale, to be held in the ampitheater of the Internationa' Livestock show grounds, May 12. She is owned by Pete of I southwest of Decatur. 'Only the best of the Guernsey cattle at the peak of their appearance are accepted by the sale officials, who last year were able to obtain 1 an average price per head of more than S4OO. Happy Boy's Cheer was the winj ner in the three-year old class at the Guernsey show held in connection with the annual Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural show last year. Her officia' butterfat production for the year she is just finishing will amount to about 545 pounds. Mr. Lehman is a member of the American Guernsey Cattle olub and will attend the annual meeting of : the club, to be held in Chicago the , J day’ before the sale.

Decatur City Hall Destroyed By Fire 36 Years Aro Today L. C. Helm, local insurance agent, and oldest member of the Decatur volunteer fire department, today recalled that 36 years ago tonight at U:ils o'clock, a fire completely destroyed the frame city hall building, which was located on the site of i the present structure. For a number of years alter the fire, Decatur was without a city ! hall. Later the present brick build- ' ing was built. At the time of the fire. Mr. Helm I was city fire chief. The city hall building also housed the fire departi ment. On.'y the hose cart and a small length of hose was saved. JUNIOR CLASS PLAY FRIDAY Decatur High School Juniors To Present Play Friday Night One of the most unusual and 'highly entertaining plays to be giv-! en by the school, will be given at the Decatur high school auditorium Friday night, when members of the junior class present, ‘YAunt Tillie I Goes To Town.” An interesting story which in- 1 eludes in addition to Aunt Tillie, a maid, anxious to be married, an- ! other who dislikes all males and the inevitable lad who ie always in a peak of trobule promises plenty of action and comedy. The play will start at 8 o’clock Friday night. Tickets may be secured from members of the class. Ad l mission is 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. Daily rehearsals are being held at the school under the supervision } of Miss Eloise Lewton, class sponsor and play directress. The cast includes: Kathryn Knapp. Virginia Shady, Florence McConnell, Annabelle Doan. Flora Marie Lankenau, Ralph Scott, Bill i Spahr, Darwin Leitz, Bob Schnitz, I Evangeline Fuhrman and LaVera Myer. Jack Tricker is business manager. , CLUB DIRECTORS MEETSATURDAY Eastern Indiana Jersey Officials To Meet Here Saturday Merwin Miller, state secretary ■ of the Indiana Jersey Cattle club, has called a meeting of the direc- ■ tors of the Eastern Indiana Jersey Parish show for 7:30 p.m.. Saturday. in the county agent’s office. Plans will be developed for the Jersey Parish show, to be held in connection with the Decatur Free Street”fair. The men invited to this meeting are: Randolph county—Herbert Hinshaw and county agent L. E. Husted. Steuben county — County Agent T. M. Grabill. Wells county—Chas. Grandlinard : and county agent M. S. Smith. Jay county—Roy Hiatt and E. L. Richman. Allen county —O. L. Bryant and I C. V. Kimmell. Whitley county—Harper Waugh . [ and B. V. Widney. Noble county—Jim Stump and M. | 1 A. Nye. Wayne county—Orlo Stanley and S. W. Milligan. DeKalb county—H. P. Steele and county agent T. E. Myers. Adams county—Sol Mosser and county agent L. E. Archbold. Kirkland PTA Will Meet Tuesday Night Rev. R. H Dixon, Fort Wayne, ‘ wi'l speak at the meeting of the Kirkland perent-Aeachers associa-, tion, which will be held at the Kirk- 1 land high school Tesday evening at 7:30 o'clodk. The program follows: invocation; minutes of last meeting; piano and ! accordian duet, Mrs. Oscar Geisel and Robert Ehrman; play, “Betty Behave." Diehl school; music, negro quartet; address. Rev. Dixon; music, negro quartet. 0 Rev. Homer Aspy To Baptist Seminary Rev. Homer J. Asipy, pastor of the Decatur Baptist church, left this morning for Louisville, Ky„ where he will attend the southern Baptist missionary, in session until Friday. One pastor from each state is invited to this annual seminary. Rev. Aspy was accompanied by | Rev. George O. Walton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church.

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TVA CHAIRMAN DEFIES DEMAND TO QUIT POST Arthur E. Morgan Accuses Associates Os “False Reports’’ Washington, Mar. 7.— <U.R> —Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee valley authority rejected the demand of his co-dlrectors for his resignation today and accused them of making "explicitly false reports” to the president, to congress and to the public. In again going to the public with his side of the quarrel among TVA directors, Dr. Morgan renewed his demand for a congressional in- ■ vestigation. He charged David E. Lilienthal i and Harcourt A. Morgan, his asso- ; dates on the board, with pursuing ! a policy that is “a menace to good ' government,” and with “evasion, ; deceit and misrperesentation.” He invited “the most critical kind of an examination" of TVA dam construction —for which he was directly responsible. "On the other hand, in my opinion,” he said, “a similar competent and unbiased examination of the electrical pgrogram (administration of which was assigned to Lilienthal) will disclose disorder, waste, confusion and lack of planI ning to a startling degree.” Dr. Morgan's statements were made in a letter written Feb. 14 to Rep. Maury Maverick, I)., Texas, who had attacked TVA policies in the house. He authorized publication of the letter becuse the other adirectors mde statements to the press last week. President Roosevelt gave official ■ cognizance to the four-year-old inI tra-directorate dispute, by authorizing publication of a letter to ; him from Harcourt Morgan and Lilienthal asserting that they no longer could work with the chairman and suggesting that he resign. That letter charged Mr. Morgan with pursuing a “rule or ruin" policy, with obstructionist tactics ■ and with collaborating with private utiUties toward "evasion and viola- . tions of the TVA act." President Roosevelt’s action was I regarded as an inferential endorsei ment of the majority’s stand and ! an invitation to Dr. Morgan to resign. Dr. Morgan concluded his letter to Maverick with these words: “I am nearly 60 years old and many years ago deliberately gave up expectation of a public career. I did not seek my present position in any way. It would be pleasanter to resign and do some of the many things I am anxious to get at. Yet, to surrender the chance to make some contribution to decency and effectiveness in government does not seem to be the first course.” Dr. Morgan said that Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan had “acted in unison" to displace him from authority they are “purposely keeping important information from (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Mrs. Wilson Writes Os Los Angeles Flood Mrs J. S Peterson Sunday reI ceived an air mail letter from hetsister. Mrs. Edward Wilson, telling jof the terrible Los Angeles flood . and saying they were all safe and ■ had suffered in no way. They reI side at Arcadia, a suburb of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Wilson stated that the flood got over the curb only in a few places there. She also said the Sellemeyers were out of the flood territory and safe. 0 YOUNG BOY IS BADLY INJURED Grandson Os Local Resident Is Struck By Street Car James Edward Young, 7, son of Mr. and Mre. Jefferson Young, of Fort Wayne and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John Bright of Decatur, is in a serious condition In the Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital, suffering from injuries received late Saturday when he was hit by a street car in that city. The lad stepped off a street car at the corner of Gay and Woodview streets directly into the pith of a street ear approaching from the opposite direction. He sustained a brain concussion and possible sikull fracture. He was unconscious for nearly six hours. Since regaining consciousness, hope is held for his recovery.